Maedhros Nelyafinwë Maitimo Fëanorian ✧ Russandol (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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driftfleet2017-08-21 08:50 pm
castintoflames) wrote in driftfleet2017-08-21 08:50 pm
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Who: Maedhros
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Not right off the bat, but that can change in the threads.
When: Early Evening.
(Trimming hair is easier said than done, but the tall Elf has done an...admirable...job?Shhh don't tell him it's uneven in parts. He sets down a pair of scissors and cocks his head, peering at himself in a mirror.)
I must have been...angled...incorrectly. (His left hand doesn't quite smack his face, but it does try to cover it as his ears go red.)
It was getting too long, you see. I became tangled in it every morn and the brushing of it was a painful business.
(Clearly annoyed, he grabs a brush, sets about smoothing it and puts it all in a ponytail. Some of the strands are rebellious, however, and fall out of the ribbon to frame his face. The tickling sensation annoys him more and he tries to tuck them, instead, behind his ears. His mangled ear doesn't make a proper perch for the copper strands and some of them fall right back where they started.)
Aica umbar!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Not right off the bat, but that can change in the threads.
When: Early Evening.
(Trimming hair is easier said than done, but the tall Elf has done an...admirable...job?
I must have been...angled...incorrectly. (His left hand doesn't quite smack his face, but it does try to cover it as his ears go red.)
It was getting too long, you see. I became tangled in it every morn and the brushing of it was a painful business.
(Clearly annoyed, he grabs a brush, sets about smoothing it and puts it all in a ponytail. Some of the strands are rebellious, however, and fall out of the ribbon to frame his face. The tickling sensation annoys him more and he tries to tuck them, instead, behind his ears. His mangled ear doesn't make a proper perch for the copper strands and some of them fall right back where they started.)
Aica umbar!
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You evened the strands; that is difficult for me to do on myself. (Maedhros bows his head to her.) I think that descriptor fits my brother more than myself. He has such a kind heart.
...he has nothing that needs my forgiveness. (Maglor might say differently.) But he has told me that my abandonment of him was...and will always be...unforgivable.
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You need to give yourself more credit. [He reminded her of a kicked puppy earlier. Obviously he has a soft side.]
Brothers say things in anger all the time that they don't mean.
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I shall try. (But he has always failed miserably in that regard.) He was...
Angry, yes, but it was a cold, resolute anger. I want to alleviate his sadness - his anger does not frighten me - but forgiveness might be too much to ask him to give.
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It's still anger though. I don't believe anything is ever absolute.
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Only death and the Fleet has proven that changeable too.
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So your brother may soften up. If you want, I can give his ear a yank like I did for my kids. [She's joking. Mostly.]
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He doesn't respond to ear yanking. I've tried. (He grins briefly.) Kano is...very stubborn. He is hurt in ways I cannot know. I think he needs a lot of time.
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Nobody should suffer their hurt alone, stubborn or not. I'm sure he'll forgive you someday.
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No, they shouldn't. (Maedhros bows his head.) It's fine either way.
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[She sets her hand on his shoulder.]
Pain is exhausting. It eats away at you. He will.
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(He glances at the hand warily before settling.)
I know it well. (Her certainty is a sweet, unsought support. He wishes he shared it.) My brothers have their own ways of working through difficulties. Patience serves me well.
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[She keeps the touch light, easily shaken off.] Having the love and support of family helps. And should help to bridge those gaps.
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(He doesn't really mind it. Touch in general makes him jumpy, but that's thanks to torture.)
We have plenty of love, that is true, and I am prepared to support him in any way he allows me.
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[She supposes it helps that her preferences are very different from her previous hosts. She can understand the love but she can't quite share in it.]
That's all anyone can really ask of family.
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(Elves live one, long, continuous life. Once they are Reborn, the life is the same. He cannot comprehend what she has experienced.)
I have loved him since he was in our Ammë's womb.
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I never did the paperwork. I didn't want to be joined.
There is the zhian'tara though. But I don't have enough friends here to participate, I doubt most would want to. And there are no Guardians here anyway.
[Elves are weird but she feels for them.]
Amme? That didn't quite translate but, mother, right?
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What is a...zhian'tara? (He can be a friend? If it's not something that will change him drastically or bar him from looking after his brother and cousin.)
Yes. Ammë is what I have always called her.
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It's... a rite of closure. We can meet our past hosts in that way, by having their personalities, memories, removed from us and into someone close to us. All voluntarily, of course, the friend can assume control again at any time.
That's sweet. Loving him so long. I know some kids are usually angry about having a sibling.
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No. I never felt that way. My brothers are part of me; we are seven pieces of a whole.
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That really is sweet. I had one older brother and one younger.
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I take it you miss them? (She seems to...understand the bonds.) Are they like you?
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Sometimes. Norvo is an artist, nothing like me except that we're both... softer, I guess. He's in prison though, he will be for awhile. Janel was more work focused. He was willing to work with the Orion Syndicate to keep the families mining consortium going, a criminal organization basically. Slavery, black market, blackmail, those sorts of things.